It isn't really a technical issue so much as a user behavior issue. The integration to ODMA (actually a standard that handles the open/save stuff you noted) is quite robust in the Office suite. The "problem" is the need for the extra stuff behind the scenes to manage all the documents and present that seamless interface to the user.

Inflation is a risk, but not necessary consequence, in large part because of your first point here: there is also wealth destruction going on along with currency debasement.

I would really love to continue this discussion, but I have to get a few things done and get ready for my 5:00 billiards, beer and pizza appointment. There are a few advantages to periods of being a bachelor.

Perhaps, I am driven by my fear of working in the secondary commercial real estate market, but rather than inflation, I fear true deflation. The value of real estate and the shape of things as I understand them makes me think we are looking at a lost decade circa 1990s Japan. I really hope I am wrong.:(

Between the Word application objects that can be exposed to dot net, and the ability to attach libraries to Word (on start-up somehow, I would presume), is it an architectural problem, or just a design and development problem?

It looks like a down month after all due to last second selling but the final numbers aren't in yet.

Edit: now it + month.

I agree but I would never recomend bailing out of everything considering your age. It is always good to have some exposure.

Right, I'll be dumping right back into a 401k starting Monday with the new job. I won't be out completely but I did want to preserve my gains which were substantial given my paltry sum to play with and the behavior of the market in general.

That said, I am utterly clueless about almost all of this stuff and made my gains purely through blind luck.

Blind luck may be the best method right now as all of the old rules have long been tossed into the bin.

If the Oct unemployment numbers come out above 10% as expected, expect Thursday to be a big sell day.

I have to go home and pack. Oh happy day.

I was amazed in PDX downtown, there were DOZENS of homeless 20-30 year olds on the streets. More than I have seen in Miami in a long time. :(

Just looked at my flight history for the year. Best I can tell, I had 57 new flight routes of the 107 segments I flew. I honestly thought it would be higher. I know that I have a few more new ones on the way (JFK-FRA, FRA-MUC, MUC-LAX, FRA-CAI, CAI-HRG, CAI-IST, IST-JFK, JFK-BCN) later this year, too.

Thirty different aircraft types in my mix. A few new ones in that category coming up, too.

That's nothing new for Portland. Pretty typical.

When I was there in 2007, I hear stories of neighboring cities giving homeless people bus tickets to Portland.

Mostly the latter. And a behavioral one. There is native integration with Office 2007 into SharePoint that does most of what you're talking about without too much programming necessary. The problem there is that there is no longer a file somewhere on your hard drive that you can see to copy or backup or email or whatnot. The documents all end up in a BLOB on the SQL server. There are a lot of reasons that is bad, but it does have some native version control built in.

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Also noticed all co planes have no alliance logos, I did see the 752 start co plane in person